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What's new in Innovasys PropertiesList 3?

Data Binding

Data Access - you can now bind either the ListItems or PropertyItems collections to a data source
Integrated browse toolbar for data bound controls

Integrated Editor - available for PropertyItems of Style plpsPicture, small images can be edited, plus the editor can be created independantly of the control
Popup text editor now supports Find and Replace

Dropdown Font List style displays preview of fonts
Checkboxes - display checkboxes or radio buttons to the left of a PropertyItem
Dropdown lists can now include pictures and can have different background and foreground colors or font settings
PropertyButtons collection, allowing new buttons to be added next to PropertyItems, or existing ones customized
"Automatic" color button for the dropdown color button, which can also have its caption customized
ListItems can now be hidden if required
PropertyItems of style plpsBoolean can now display a checkbox instead of a dropdown list
TrueLabel and FalseLabel properties, allowing you to override the True and False labels of boolean PropertyItems on a global scale.

LanguageStrings object, allowing the English phrases in the control to be translated
New DescriptionBox control
ColumnHeaders collection, allowing customization of the columns
Improved and expanded ownerdraw functionality
Many additional styles for use with the BorderStyles property
TextAlignment property, allowing the alignment of text in an empty PropertiesList control to be customized
Ability to link WinHelp and HTML Help topics to PropertyItems, or provide your own help methods
End users can resize the caption and value columns without the column headers being visible by dragging the point where the two columns meet
New properties for the PropertyItem object allowing you to further fine tune how a PropertyItem operates and looks

Toolbar - an integrated toolbar which can be aligned to any axis of the PropertiesList control and configured using the ToolItems collection
"New Row" functionality, allowing new property items to be created by entering data into an alignment edit field

Windows XP Theme support for user interface elements such as column headers, scrollbars and toolbar buttons
Improved scrolling when dragging PropertyItems

DeleteAction property, allowing you to define the default behaviour when the Delete key is pressed
Improved object population, including the ability to populate a PropertiesList control from just a ProgId
Global ListItems collection, allowing one or more PropertyItem objects to share the same ListItems collection
New sorting facilities, including the Sort method and AutoSort, SortColumn, Sorted and SortOrder properties, including the ability to sort a PropertiesList control by clicking the column header